Senior Software Engineer, Planet

• Excellent development skills in Python
• Practical experience with Django, Django Rest Framework, and Celery
• Solid background in designing, developing, and maintaining distributed service-oriented systems
• Experience with cloud-native applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Direct experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Effective English communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience in making, documenting and communicating architectural decisions
• Ability to drive the implementation of complex features in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and distributed environment

Desirable

• In this role, you will maintain and extend Planet’s Tasking systems, which bridge our customers and many of our internal systems.
• This means you will be working on systems that externally provide comfortable and reliable interfaces (API & web) for our customers to task and receive our data, and internally act as an integration point between diverse systems (mission control, accounting, imaging processing and quality control).
• Work closely with product managers and designers to create user-centered products
• Realize initiatives through their whole life cycle, from exploration and design over implementation and quality to release and maintenance
• Continually improve our systems’ architecture, development processes and system design
• As a part of an on-call duty rotation, you’ll help maintain a high level of quality and service for our customers

• Application Deadline: August 24, 2025 by 23:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)